Maps
Landforms
Rocks
Properties
Physical
100
these maps use lines of equal elevation to show the shape of earth's surface.
What are topographic maps?
100
features caused by processes both on Earth's surface and resulting from forces within Earth.
What is a landform?
100
a naturally occurring, generally inorganic solid with a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
100
how easily a mineral is scratched
What is hardness?
100
attracts iron
What is magnetic?
200
these maps show the geology of an area.
What are geologic maps?
200
a process that moves the surface of the Earth to a higher elevation.
What is uplift?
200
found in the natural world, not made in a lab.
What is naturally occurring?
200
the color of powder from a mineral
What is streak?
200
see two images of an object through a mineral
What is double refraction?
300
lines drawn on maps to join points of equal elevation
What are contour lines?
300
the wearing away of rock and soil.
What is erosion?
300
processes that do not involve living things.
What is inorganic?
300
the way a mineral's surface reflects light.
What is luster?
300
the amount of space a substance occupies
What is volume?
400
the difference in elevation between contour lines that are next to each other.
What are contour intervals?
400
these carved the valleys in Yosemite
What are glaciers?
400
definite shape and volume
What is a solid?
400
breaks along smooth, flat lines
What is cleavage?
400
the amount of matter an object has per unit of volume.
What is density?
500
a three dimensional body or volume of a certain type of rock of a given age.
What is a geologic formation
500
True or false Lassen Peak is shaped by the internal forces of volcanic activity and the external forces of erosion
What is True
500
made of specific elements in definite proportions
What is definite composition?
500
mineral breaks along rough or irregular lines
What is fracture?
500
the equation used to calculate density
What is mass divided by volume?
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